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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Anne Sullivan come to teach Helen?

2. What game did Helen think reading was like?

3. Why didn't Helen have any fits of temper while she was with her parents on the trip to see the eye doctor?

4. What was the first book Helen read from?

5. What abstract term did it take a very long time for Helen to understand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Helen, Mildred and Miss Sullivan as they tried to find their way home when they were lost in the woods?

2. Why did Helen become restless and frustrated?

3. How did Helen feel about Anne's attempts to teach her the manual alphabet?

4. What animal did Helen find on the beach and what did she do with it?

5. How did Helen imitate her father?

6. What became one of Helen's favorite pastimes?

7. What gave Kate hope for Helen?

8. What happened during the rest of the summer as Helen's vocabulary grew?

9. What had Helen accomplished by the time she was age thirteen?

10. What allowed Helen to forget all of the controversy about her plagiarism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining in what ways Helen was fortunate to be born into the family she was. How did her parents support and help her? Why might other families not be able to do the same things?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think Helen would have been able to continue her studies if Anne had had to accept a different position? What do you think was Anne's influence on Helen's studies?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways did Helen change throughout the novel? In what ways did she remain the same? Do you think Helen herself recognized how she changed or did it just become more apparent to others? Why or why not?

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